The Law of Increase/Decrease

August 13, 2014

The Eternal Purpose of God shows that everything that has been done, everything being done, and everything that will happen from the Will of God – is for Jesus to be increased; and everything else that is not Jesus – to be decreased.

This eternal principle is beyond our agreement with it, understanding of it, or belief in it. Jesus must increase, will increase, and is increasing. All else then, must decrease, will decrease and is decreasing.

While it is an eternal inevitability of this increasing and decreasing, irrespective of our agreement with it; our quest of Freedom depends on seeing, and Living in the flow of this Law.

Does this Christ increasing and us decreasing mean we achieve a sinless perfection? No. It means we can, however reckon ourselves dead to sin, rendering sin powerless to keep us enslaved to it. We can be Free from the bonds of sin. This is the choosing to Live by the New Law, New Life that indwells us in Christ.

Does “not I, but Christ” mean we are robots, without a personality, character, or ability to think and express? No. The Lord gave us these as gifts – unique, perfect and wonderful in their making – and they are to be used and expressed. But the increasing of the Lord will decrease the self-centeredness of us – which would be revealed through these gifts in a natural, perverted way.

The increase of Christ is a mindset we are to apprehend through reckoning. Once the mind is renewed in the Truth of the Law of Life, our lives will bear testimony to this reckoning – and the attitude toward this Law will become Truth in our Spirit.

We already have all of the fullness of Christ within us. He is there. It is a misnomer to say, “Give me more of Jesus.” You can’t get more of what you already have all of. To receive the “more of Jesus” this expression calls for is a spiritual thing – one of taking up the Cross daily. Choosing to live from Christ-centeredness, rather than Self-centeredness on a daily basis removes the veil that hinders sight of the increase of the fullness of Christ that is already in us.

To deny Self is to return God’s Love back to Him, rather than toward Self. Ultimately, we obey that or whom we love.

This is the heart-attitude of The Path aspect of the Cross – which is “not my will, but Yours.” This is being decreased: death. To Live in Resurrection, we must first have death. As Jesus passed through the Cross, into Life outside the tomb – so too do we.